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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...age when more and more people appear either beset by total despair for the future or have hope only in the supernatural, Senator Humphrey seemed to say that we, mankind, hold the hope for the future by working our hardest and never giving up the fight for a better life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1978 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

When Soviet Cosmos 954 naval reconnaissance satellite plummeted from its orbit and disintegrated over northwestern Canada last week, it underscored an inescapable fact of the space age: we are never alone. Nor, for that matter, is the other side. Day and night, little is hidden from the intelligence-gathering techniques of the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Information is plucked from space, from the ground, from under the sea. A rundown of some of the most sophisticated methods for gathering data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Motto Is: Think Big, Think Dirty | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

What the spy trade calls ELINT (for electronic intelligence) seems limited only by the range of the human imagination; it is a tinkerer's dream so long as intelligence wizards bear in mind the unofficial motto of space age spying: think big and think dirty. But all their gadgets, no matter how effective and sophisticated, are unlikely to make the man in the trenchcoat obsolete. Satellites and planes and bugs might dig up secret information faster, but HUMINT (for human intelligence) is needed to interpret it, and to decide what to do next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Motto Is: Think Big, Think Dirty | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...Space age "difficulty"? It could have been a nuclear disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cosmos 954: An Ugly Death | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...cause for panic, said the U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. It had merely been "a space age difficulty ... There is no danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cosmos 954: An Ugly Death | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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